What makes me thankful? I grew up in a world before Instagram | Arwa Mahdawi

Facebook may have shelved its plans for an Instagram for Kids', but the photo-sharing app will continue to prompt complaints that it causes anxiety, depression and body image issues in teenage girls

Sorry kids, no carefully curated data-extraction experience for you quite yet. On Monday, Facebook announced that it is pausing" controversial plans to create Instagram for Kids, a version of its photo-sharing app designed for children under the age of 13.

Does this mean Facebook has realised that it might not be in children's best interest to hook them into social media at a tender young age? Has the company decided to put people above profit? Don't be silly! The reason the tech giant has paused the project is because we idiots in the media misunderstood it, apparently. In an almost comically condescending blog post and series of tweets, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri explained that the company stood by the need to create a social media experience" for children. Alas, he said, news about the project leaked before it had figured out all the details. People feared the worst, and we had few answers at that stage. It's clear we need to take more time on this."